Levin Borough Council.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 October 1913, Page 2

Levin Borough Council.

< »IN)I\A |{V .{•'<)KT.\ IIiHTL Y MLJvL'L\(.;. A I 'lie usual jni'iniylit!y incel- | in?r i'i Levin Horou.uii Council, held last nielli, llie Mayor („\| r J). 11. (i;irdeiier) presided. and there also were presenl ('on nei I lors (. Jilen Idiorn, I). \\ . Mal heson, A. Denipsey. K. I-!. I'arker, A. K. II:)swell]v S. L;inc;isler, I). S. Mackenzie, 11. I). France. .Leave dC absence ;is irranled lo Councillor I'rouse. lie hein'r away on urgent private business. A letter ironi 'I hanies Uorou<>'li Council. i)oinl iny on) (he need for liavintr pii>\s slaughtered in abattoirs only, was read by Mr Coldiiill It, town cleric . 11 was a st rikinu' documenl, and llie coun- <• i 1 resolved 1 hat' if be referred io the. abai loirs eomnrillee id' Levin J'oroiiirh < 'oinieil "for furllier conion wdli a reoucsl Io reporl upon ii. The full le\i of llie let Icr will appear in 10-morrow's Chronicle.

Ai•(■(miiils totalling nvor £501) were passed for payment. .Mr T. •lohiisnii wrote asking )*f>c i-i'lief from flood water caused In ilir water-race blocking a culver! near his proper!y in Tiro Tiro road. Several councillors remarked Ilia! (lie heavy rains on Saturday caused floods in -all quarters: no culver! could lake llie extraordinary volumes of wafer that were about on Saturdav,

and the Mayor said thai even i Inextra largo culvert recently installed near Levm post office could not cope with the flood water on Saiurdav. 'I lie complaint was referred to i lie overseer to attend to

••(MJAVtfr. IIKSfIIJA'KS." J'lie Ordcr-iu-Couii'-il authori,--ing the sale of the leases of the sections in (he gravel reserve, Oxford street, which have been forfeited at various times during Malast lew years has now been M-ciired. ft u u ,n resolved that the leases be advertised for sale, the i ipse I price to be fixed later.